Italian torpedo boat Tifone

Tifone, 4 April 1943
History
Italy
Name	Tifone
Builder	Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Trieste
Laid down	17 June 1941
Launched	31 March 1942
Completed	11 July 1942
Fate	Scuttled 7 May 1943
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Ciclone-class torpedo boat
Displacement	910 long tons (920 t) standard 1,625 long tons (1,651 t) full load
Length	82.5 m (270 ft 8 in)
Beam	9.9 m (32 ft 6 in)
Draught	3.77 m (12 ft 4 in)
Propulsion	2 shaft steam turbines 2 Yarrow type boilers 16,000 hp (11,900 kW)
Speed	26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Complement	154
Sensors and processing systems	Sonar and hydrophones
Armament	2 × 100 mm (4 in) / 47 caliber guns 10 × 20 mm (0.79 in) anti-aircraft guns 8 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA machine guns 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes 4 × depth charge throwers

Tifone was a Ciclone-class torpedo boat that served with the Italian Navy during the Second World War. The vessel entered service on 11 July 1942 and was scuttled on 7 May 1943 at Korbous, Tunisia. She escorted the last Axis convoy to reach Africa in World War II.^[2]